[MPlayer-users] wmv, rm, mov, vp6. Which is best?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:03:08PM +0100, Amadeus wrote:
> > Those use an automatic blur filter at high motion scenes. You could
> > simulate that effect with some mencoder video filters.
> 
> I have read that VP6 does that, but I didn't knew WMV and RM did it
> aswell.

A general rule when making proprietary software is to make it look
better at first sight to a naive user audience, while making it worse
and less correct overall...

> > > So I was wondering, does anyone know where I can read about which is
> > > best og wmv, rm, mov, vp6?
> >
> > xvid,vp6,divx,...
> 
> Is it considered a fact, that xvid is better than libavcodec's mpeg4?

No, the opposite.

> > The better the documentation of the codec, the better the results.
> > Documentation for xvid and divx is good, documentation for lavc ist mostly
> > outdated.

Which documentation is outdated?

> But there is still being worked on lavc?

Docs? or lavc itself?

Rich